A minimal, portfolio, sidebar, bootstrap Jekyll theme with responsive web design and focuses on text exhibition. It will help you easily record, manage and share your knowledge and experience. Hope you like it! [**Live Demo** »](https://chirpy.cotes.info)
Follow the [Jekyll Docs](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/) to complete the installtion of basic environment (Ruby, RubyGem, Bundler and Jekyll). In addition, to use the funny script tools, we also need to install [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/)(version 3.5 or abover) and [ruamel.yaml](https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml/).
The sample avatar is `/assets/img/sample/avatar.jpg`. It should be replaced by your own one. Notice that a huge image file will increase the load time of your site, so keep your avatar size as samll as possible(may be *<https://tinypng.com/>* will help).
To ensure that the posts' release date matches the city you live in, please modify the field `timezone` correctly. A list of all available values can be found on [TimezoneConverter](http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/findzone/findzone) or [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones).
>**Note**: The *Recent Update* list requires the latest git-log date of posts, thus make sure the changes in `_posts` have been committed before running this command.
Open a brower and visit <http://localhost:4000>.
Few days later, you may find that the file changes does not refresh in real time by using `run.sh`. Don't worry, the advanced option `-r` (or `--realtime`) will solve this problem, but it requires [**fswatch**](http://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/) to be installed on your machine.
Before the deployment begins, ensure the `url` in file `_config.yml` has been set to `https://<username>.github.io`(or the custom domain, if you have. e.g. `https://yourdomain.com`).
By deploying the site in this way, you're allowed to push the source code directly to the remote.
> **Note**: If you want to use any third-party Jekyll plugins that not in [this list](https://pages.github.com/versions/), stop reading the current approach and go to [*Option 2: Build locally*](#option-2-build-locally).
For security reasons, GitHub Pages runs on `safe` mode, which means the third-party Jekyll plugins or custom scripts won't work. If you want to use any another plugins that not in the [whitelist](https://pages.github.com/versions/), **you have to generate the site locally rather than on GitHub Pages**.
**1**. Browse to GitHub website, create a brand new repo named:
|Site Type | Repo's Name|
|:---|:---|
|User or Organization | `<username>.github.io`|
|Project| any one except `<username>.github.io`, let's say `project`|
If you prefer to the Project site, change `baseurl` of file `_config.yml` to your project name, starting with a slash. e.g. `/project`. Or, simply add argument `-b /project` behide the command above.
The generated static files will be placed in the root of `/path/to/local/project`. Commit and push the changes to the `master` branch on GitHub.
**3**. Go to GitHub website and enable Pages service for the new repository.
For more information, please check out the [tutorial](https://chirpy.cotes.info/categories/tutorial/). In the meanwhile, a copy of the tutorial is also available on the [Wiki](https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy/wiki).
## Sponsor
Want to buy me a coffee? Click the button <kbd>❤️Sponsor</kbd> at the top of the [Home Page](https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy) and choose a link that suits you to donate. I'd really appreciate it and take it as encouragement to work on better projects.
